Quotes About Stratification

Class is not a fixed designation in this country. We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of movement between income groups.

Everyone is happier if they have someone to look down on, as well as someone to look up to, especially if they resent both. This is not only the Beta Male strategy for survival, but the basis for capitalism, democracy, and most religions.

The class system in India is very hard, and it is very unfair.

My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.

There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.

We have a new lower class that's large and growing that has fallen away from a lot of the basic core behaviors and institutions that made America work, and we have a new upper class that's increasingly isolated from and ignorant of mainstream America.

Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.

I do have strong feelings about the aristocracy: they serve a purpose, but it's a sort of insular strand of society.

stratification is developed and used throughout the book. This strategy has three elements: First, as often as possible, I place data in a historical and cross-national context. This information leads to important questions. For example, if the rate of poverty has fallen

THE STRUCTURE OF SOCIAL STRATIFICATION IN THE UNITED STATES LEONARD BEEGHLEY

Life was already sorting them into categories, whether they liked it or not. All they could do was stare at each other dumbly across the widening gaps.

The notion that egalitarian purposes could be served by the "restoration" of upward mobility betrayed a fundamental misunderstanding. High rates of mobility are by no means inconsistent with a system of stratification that concentrates power and privilege in a ruling elite. Indeed, the circulation of elites strengthens the principle of hierarchy, furnishing elites with fresh talent and legitimating their ascendancy as a function of merit rather than birth.

The lowest and most level land areas show us, especially when we dig there to very great depths, nothing but horizontal layers of material more or less varied, which almost all contain innumerable products of the sea.

There are only two classes - first class and no class.

There is no horizontal stratification of society in this country like the rocks in the earth, that hold one class down below forevermore, and let another come to the surface to stay there forever. Our stratification is like the ocean, where every individual drop is free to move, and where from the sternest depths of the mighty deep any drop may come up to glitter on the highest wave that rolls.

Upper classes are a nation's past the middle-class is its future.

Inequality, in other words, is precisely the principle upon which their social life is based and is made possible.

We cling to the comfort of a middle class, forgetting that there can't be a middle class without a lower.

There can be no doubt of this: All America is divided into two classes,- the quality and the equality.

Most of the concert reviews in the next day's paper would describe the crowd milling about the Slumberland as "diverse" without saying what made them so. In polite democratic society it's important to note stratification but impolite to label the layers.

In polite democratic society its important to note stratification but impolite to label the layers.

Class, she reminded herself, was the real marker in America.